{"id":10062,"date":"2018-05-17T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=751a3428731f166e43172aea230a154d"},"modified":"2018-05-17T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:07:03","slug":"similarly-named-barber-shops-should-be-able-to-co-exist-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/similarly-named-barber-shops-should-be-able-to-co-exist-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Similarly named barber shops should be able to co-exist, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia cabinet minister is lending support to a local barber locked in a dispute with a national chain over the name of his shop.<\/p>\n

The owner of Tommy’s Barber Shop in north-end Dartmouth says the Tommy Gun’s Original Barbershop chain sent him a letter this month alleging trademark infringement.<\/p>\n

But Service Nova Scotia Minister Geoff MacLellan says he doesn’t see how the name of a small barber shop confuses customers or depreciates the national chain’s brand.<\/p>\n

Barber Thong Luong told the CBC his shop has been called Tommy’s Barber Shop since 2003.<\/p>\n

MacLellan says there are no issues as far as the province is concerned — Tommy’s Barber Shop is registered with Nova Scotia’s Registry of Joint Stocks.<\/p>\n

The minister says he understands the “reputable” national chain — which has two shops in the Halifax area — might feel it needs to keep its brand equity strong.<\/p>\n

But MacLellan says he thinks there is room for both businesses, and he hopes they can work things out without “any catastrophic impact on either side.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia cabinet minister is lending support to a local barber locked in a dispute with a national chain over the name of his shop. The owner of Tommy’s Barber Shop in north-end Dartmouth says the Tommy Gun’s Original Barbershop chain sent him a letter this month alleging trademark infringement. But Service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10063,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}